On January 13, 1996, the first Emotion Festival took place at Nakano Zero Hall.
Matsumoto Rica and Sekiya Kazutaka were the emcees.

The event flowed as follows.

introduction, and talk with some guests

Fam & Ihrlie 4 (accompanied by live orchestra)

Emotion talk with some guests

Bandai character/OAV poll

Gundam

presents

In the morning, prior to this event, they had a showing of various
OAVs and such:
Taiho Shichauzo 4, Macross Plus 4, Gundam Wing 1, Slayers TV 1.

introduction, and talk with some guests

The first two guests to appear were Tamagawa Sakiko and Yamaguchi Kappei.
They talked very shortly about the current things that they were
working on (CDs and such).

Also during this event, Tamagawa Sakiko was doing the PA system
announcements.

Fam & Ihrlie 4 (accompanied by live orchestra)

They showed Fam & Ihrlie episode 4, but instead of the normal BGM,
they had a 6 person orchestra, directed by Amano Masamichi.
During the OAV, this orchestra performed some of the BGM live.
Then at the end of the episode, Matsumoto Rica came and sang the
ED song live!

[Since I had not seen Fam & Ihrlie 2 and 3, I had no idea what
was going on.. (;_;)]

Then they called Amano Masamichi and talked with him for a while.
He said that it would be great if they can do another OAV showing
like this, but with a bigger orchestra, and a full seiyuu cast
to do the voices live.

Then they called Mori Takeshi (the director) and talked with him
for a while.

Emotion talk with some guests

After a 10 minute break,
they showed a 20 minute video showing the history of Emotion.
It contained clips from the various movies, TV shows, and OAVs
that Emotion released from 1982 to 1996.

Then they called four of the Bandai producers
(Takanashi Minoru, Sugita ??, Matsumoto ??, and Ikeguchi Kazuhiko)
to the stage.
They talked about some of the old anime that they worked on,
and some of the new anime that will be coming out.

Some of the old anime that these people had worked on were:
Mr. Takanashi - Macross 7;
Mr. Sugita - SD Gundam;
Mr. Matsumoto - Beat Shot;
and Mr. Ikeguchi - Madara, Villgust, Fam & Ihrlie.

They showed some clips of Mahou Tsukaitai and Shamanic Princess,
which were new OAVs coming out later this year.
Mahou Tsukaitai was a very cute, funny, and slightly ecchi magical
girl story. Itou Ikuko and Satou Jun'ichi (Sailor Moon) are
working on this OAV.
Mr. Takanashi stressed that ecchi was very different
from sukebe. (^_^;)
The main voice actresses for Mahou Tsukaitai were Konishi Hiroko,
Iwao Junko, and Iizuka Mayumi.

Shamanic Princess is also a magical girl story, but it is much
darker in mood. The character design for this will be done by
Ishida Atsuko (Magic Knight Rayearth).
Matsumoto Rica will be doing a voice in Shamanic Princess.

Then Mr. Sugita let out a secret that there will be a Tetsuwan Birdy
anime coming out later this year.
Tetsuwan Birdy is by Yuuki Masami (Pat Labor).
One of the voices will be done by Hyoudou Mako,
and Mako appeared as a guest for a little while.
Other seiyuu in this anime will be Mitsuishi Kotono and Iwanaga Tetsuya.

The Playstation Macross game (due out later this year) will have six
types of transforming Valkyries.
The OP for the game will be a Fire Bomber song, and the ED will
be written by Iijima Mari, but sung by someone else.
Also they might do a Sega Saturn version of the Macross game too,
but they haven't decided for sure yet.

Then they had the group Rururu come to sing a song.
Rururu is a new group made up of Tezuka Chiharu,
Fujino Kaoru, and Morota Kaoru, whose names all end in "ru".
They sing the ED song to the TV show Say You Club,
but the song that they sang was the coupling song from the CD single.

Bandai character/OAV poll

Then they moved onto the presentation of the results of the
Bandai character/OAV poll.
They counted down the top 10 for the male TV characters,
female TV characters, male OAV characters, female OAV characters,
TV shows, and OAVs.

[I couldn't get a full list of the characters.]

male TV characters

5. Duo Maxwell (Gundam Wing)

4. Adieu Woltham (Ryuu Knight)

3. Hiiro Yui (Gundam Wing)

2. Gauly (Slayers)

1. Nekki Basara (Macross 7)

female TV characters

5. Paffy Pafuricia (Ryuu Knight)

4. Lileana Dorian (Gundam Wing)

3. Miaka (Fushigi Yuugi)

2. Milane Jenuis (Macross 7)

1. Rina Inverse (Slayers)

male OAV characters

5. Anavel Gato (Gundam 0083)

4. Nakajima (Taiho Shichauzo)

3. Fujii Yakumo (3x3 Eyes)

2. Isamu Daison (Macross Plus)

1. Adieu Woltham (Ryuu Knight)

female OAV characters

5. Ginrei (Giant Robo)

4. Kobayakawa Miyuki (Taiho Shichauzo)

3. Fam (Fam & Ihrlie)

2. Paffy Pafuricia (Ryuu Knight)

1. Pai (3x3 Eyes)

They showed a short video clip of the characters for the top three
in each category.
Then there was a video message by Hayashibara Megumi (voice only).

TV shows

10. Votoms

9. Mirai Shounen Conan

8. Z Gundam

7. Ryuu Knight

6. Pat Labor

5. G Gundam

4. Fushigi Yuugi

3. Slayers

2. Gundam Wing

1. Macross 7

They showed a short video clip of each anime while counting them down.
Then there was a long video message by Hayashi Nobutoshi and Sakurai Tomo.

Also the voice actress Kujira came onto the stage as a guest
to talk for a little bit.

Gundam

They showed a video of some clips from the Gundam version 2.0
Playstation game.
This looks much better than the first Gundam game,
which was a disappointment.

Then they showed Gundam Dai 08 MS Shoutai episode 2.
They showed episode 2 instead of episode 1 because episode 1 had
been given away in Newtype magazine, and many people had already seen it.
The first LD/video will come with both episodes 1 and 2.

[This Gundam looks very nice.. although the screen was blurry.
I'm not sure if it's my eyes or the projection system. (^_^;)]

presents

They had a question corner where the whole crowd participated to
determine who was the King of Emotion.
It was a series of yes/no questions regarding Emotion related anime.
The winner got to choose one of anything that Emotion will release
in 1996, including LDs, videos, and LD box sets.

After that they read out the winning numbers for the grab bag
of Emotion goodies, videos, games, cels, etc.
(Each person who attended the event had numbers written on the tickets.)